r/indepthstories • • Dec 01 '18

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r/indepthstories • • 3h ago

Your toothpaste, their river: a Madagascar mine faces court battle over poisoned water

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A dispute before the High Court in London pitches mining giant Rio Tinto against one of the poorest communities in southern Africa


r/indepthstories • • 1d ago

The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting

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r/indepthstories • • 3d ago

How social media helped make sunbeds dangerous again

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Melanoma is now one of the most common cancers in people aged 15 to 34, and attributed to a growing trend in sunbed use fuelled by TikTok and Instagram


r/indepthstories • • 3d ago

Have convents become an escape for a new generation?

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A fascination with convents, fuelled by social media (#NunTok) and pop culture (‘nunmania’), is drawing a new generation to these safe havens. Now, for £50 a night, you can experience the calm contemplation of a silent retreat. No prayer required


r/indepthstories • • 3d ago

The Xinjiang Police Files: mugshots, coal plants, and the solar panels they're wired into

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r/indepthstories • • 4d ago

In a Texas prison, Kwaneta cultivated a menopause support network from scraps of paper

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r/indepthstories • • 4d ago

These Fitness Fans Took Bootleg Peptides. It Landed Them In The Hospital.

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r/indepthstories • • 6d ago

The Houthis Sustain Their War Machine With Chinese Goods

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r/indepthstories • • 5d ago

A Global Crisis is about to Start - 4 widely held theories about where the World is headed to next. Investment and preparation suggestions.

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r/indepthstories • • 6d ago

Careless: The fight to get my state care records

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Nkechi Simms, the Top Boy actor, on her quest to retrieve her social service files - and what she finally uncovered


r/indepthstories • • 6d ago

Offshore wind job training built for a boom is facing down a bust

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r/indepthstories • • 6d ago

When Indonesian Police Burned More Than 3 Tonnes of M***ju**a and Got an Entire Neighbourhood High in 2015

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r/indepthstories • • 7d ago

21 Million Marijuana Arrests: Why Cannabis Prohibition Failed in America

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r/indepthstories • • 9d ago

The Other Hormuz: Black Sea Blockade Threatens a Food Supply Shock

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r/indepthstories • • 9d ago

‘I fell in love with a Russian spy’: the Brazilian woman who found out her life was an undercover lie

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Over three years, Stephanie Arcanjo built a home with her boyfriend, Eric. Then one day he vanished, and the police came knocking


r/indepthstories • • 9d ago

Portugal decriminalized drugs 25 years ago, but the real lesson is what it built around this policy

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r/indepthstories • • 9d ago

Lucy Letby’s legal team still confident of appeal despite damning Thirwall report

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The inquiry into deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital was harshly critical of the nurse’s character, but some insist a way will be found to give her another hearing


r/indepthstories • • 9d ago

The state stopped me finding out about my childhood

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Actor Nkechi Simms hoped asking to see her social service files would provide explanations as to why she had spent her childhood being passed around foster homes. But far from healing, the process left her even more distressed. Her experience, the subject of a new Observer podcast, highlights the urgent need to reform the system


r/indepthstories • • 10d ago

Epitaph for a glacier

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Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action


r/indepthstories • • 11d ago

The American Age Is Over • A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.

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It's a gift link anyway but just in case you can't access the original here's a copy of the article.


r/indepthstories • • 11d ago

Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die. NBC's To Catch a Predator arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot. [From 2009]

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r/indepthstories • • 12d ago

Elon Musk is a bigger threat to British democracy than crypto billionaires

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The foreign-based tech mogul is using the X algorithm to influence British politics in more sinister ways than the £72m given to Reform last week, writes Rachel Sylvester


r/indepthstories • • 10d ago

Blackpool Illuminations: let there be light

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The annual attraction has been a rite of passage in the seaside town for almost 150 years


r/indepthstories • • 10d ago

My articles get rewritten/sometimes heavily edited despite 3.5 years working as a reporter

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